Reading List on Japanese Internment and Relocation: Adult
This list includes many of the resources listed at DENSHO. Their Japanese
American Legacy Project is outstanding and we thank them for allowing us to
reference this reading list on the History Colorado website. Please visit their
wealth of resources at:
(http://www.densho.org/resources/default.asp)
Prewar/Overview
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Azuma, Eiichiro. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in
Japanese America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. [ link ]
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Chuman, Frank F. The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese Americans. Del
Mar, CA: Publisher's Inc., 1976. [ link ]
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Daniels, Roger. The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in
California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion. 1962. 2nd edition. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1977. [ link ]
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__________. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since
1850. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. [ link ]
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Fugita, Stephen and David J. O'Brien. Japanese American Ethnicity: The
Persistence of Community. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. [ link ]
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Ichioka, Yuji. The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants,
1885-1924. New York: The Free Press, 1988. [ link ]
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__________. Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History.
Ed. Gordon H. Chang and Eiichiro Azuma. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2006. [ link ]
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Ito, Kazuo. Issei: A History of Japanese Immigrants in North America. Shinichiro
Nakamura, Jean S. Gerard, trans. Seattle: Executive Committee for the
Publication of Issei: A History of Japanese Immigrants in North America, 1973.
[ link ]
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Spickard, Paul R. Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an
Ethnic Group. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. [ link ]
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Takahashi, Jere. Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. [ link ]
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Yoo, David. Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese
Americans of California, 1924-49. Foreword by Roger Daniels. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 2000. [ link ]
History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203
HistoryColoradoCenter.org
World War II
Overview
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Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Personal Justice
Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of
Civilians. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1982. Foreword by
Tetsuden Kashima. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. [ link ]
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Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New
York: Hill and Wang, 1993. [ link ]
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__________, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano, eds. Japanese Americans:
From Relocation to Redress. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986.
Revised edition. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. [ link ]
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Fugita, Stephen S., and Marilyn Fernandez. Altered Lives, Enduring Community:
Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 2004. [ link ]
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Harth, Erica, ed. Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of
Japanese Americans. New York: Palgrave, 2001. [ link ]
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Hayashi, Brian Masaru. Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American
Internment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. [ link ]
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Howard, John. Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in
the House of Jim Crow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. [ link ]
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Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment
during World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. [ link ]
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Robinson, Greg. A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North
America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. [ link ]
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Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration
Camps. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1976. Updated ed. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1996. [ link ]
Why It Happened and Administration
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Daniels, Roger. Concentration Camps, U.S.A.: Japanese Americans and World
War II. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Concentration Camps, North
America: Japanese in the United States and Canada during World War II Malabar,
FL: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1981. [ link ]
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Grodzins, Morton. Americans Betrayed: Politics and the Japanese Evacuation.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949. [ link ]
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Ichioka, Yuji, ed. and introduction. Views from Within: The Japanese American
Evacuation and Resettlement Study. Los Angeles: University of California at Los
Angeles, 1989. [ link]
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Muller, Eric L. American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in
World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. [ link ]
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de Nevers, Klancy Clark. The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito
and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Foreword by
Roger Daniels. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. [ link ]
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tenBroek, Jacobus, Edward N. Barnhart, and Floyd Matson. Prejudice, War, and
the Constitution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954. [ link ]
Life in the Concentration Camps
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Fiset, Louis. Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei
Couple. Foreword by Roger Daniels. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1997. [ link ]
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Chang, Gordon H., ed., annotation and biographical essay. Morning Glory, Evening
Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1997. [ link ]
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Inada, Lawson Fusao, ed. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American
Internment Experience. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2000; Northam, U.K.:
Roundhouse, 2001. [ link]
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Irwin, Catherine. Twice Orphaned: Voices from the Children's Village of Manzanar.
Preface by Paul Spickard. Fullerton: California State University, Fullerton, Center
for Oral & Public History, 2008. [ link ]
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James, Thomas. Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. [ link ]
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Kikuchi, Charles. The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration
Camp. John Modell, ed. and introd. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. Illini
Books ed., 1993. [link ]
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Tateishi, John, ed. And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American
Detention Camps. 1984. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. [ link ]
Literature/Memoirs
(See also Densho Encyclopedia articles Literary works on
incarceration and Literature in Camp)
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Ariyoshi, Koji. From Kona to Yen'an: The Political Memoirs of Koji Ariyoshi. Edited
by Edward D. Beechert and Alice M. Beechert. Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press, 2000. [link ]
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Dempster, Brian Komei, ed. From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America's
Concentration Camps. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop, 2001. [ link ]
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Higashide, Seiichi. Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee
in U.S. Concentration Camps. Honolulu: E and E Kudo, 1993. Rpt. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 2000. [ link ]
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Hosokawa, Bill. Out of the Frying Pan. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado,
1998. [link ]
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Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1973. [ link ]
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Inouye, Daniel K. Journey to Washington. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967.
[ link ]
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Ishizuka, Karen. Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American
Incarceration. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. [ link ]
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Kashiwagi, Hiroshi. Swimming in the American: A Memoir and Selected Writings.
San Mateo: Asian American Curriculum Project, 2005. [ link ]
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Kochiyama, Yuri. Passing It On--A Memoir. Edited by Marjorie Lee, Akemi
Kochiyama-Sardinha, and Audee Kochiyama-Holman. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian
American Studies Center, 2004. [ link ]
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Masaoka, Mike with Bill Hosokawa. They Call Me Moses Masaoka: An American
Saga. New York: William Morrow, 1987. [ link ]
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Okada, John. No-No Boy. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1957. Rpt. [ link ]
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Okubo, Mine. Citizen 13660. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. [ link ]
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Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine. New York: Random House, 2003.
[ link ]
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Sone, Monica. Nisei Daughter. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. Rpt.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979. [ link ]
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Suyemoto, Toyo. I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. [ link ]
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Tsukamoto, Mary, and Elizabeth Pinkerton. We the People : A Story of Internment
in America. Elk Grove, CA: Laguna, 1987. [ link ]
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Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982. [ link ]
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Uyeda, Clifford I. Suspended: Growing up Asian In America. San Francisco:
National Japanese American Historical Society, 2000. [ link ]
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Yamada, Mitsuye. Camp Notes and Other Poems. San Lorenzo, CA. Shameless
Hussy Press, 1976. [ link ]
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Yamamoto, Hisaye. Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. Kitchen Table: Women
of Color Press, 1988. [ link ]
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Yoneda, Karl. Ganbatte: Sixty-year Struggle of a Kibei Worker. Los Angeles: UCLA
Asian American Studies Center, 1983. [ link ]
Art and Photography
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Alinder, Jasmine. Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American
Incarceration. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. [ link ]
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Dusselier, Jane. Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American
Concentration Camps. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008. [ link ]
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Eaton, Allen. Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War
Relocation Camps. New York: Harper, 1952. [ link ]
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Gesensway, Deborah and Mindy Roseman. Beyond Words: Images from America's
Concentration Camps. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. [ link ]
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Gordon, Linda, and Gary Okihiro. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored
Images of Japanese American Internment. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. [ link ]
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Hill, Kimi Kodani, Ed. Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment. Berkeley:
Heydey Books, 2000. [ link ]
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Hirasuna, Delphine. The Art of Gaman. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2005.
[ link ]
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Kristine Kim, ed. Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience. Berkeley:
Heyday Books, 2000. [ link ]
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The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps,
1942-1945. Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, UCLA Wight Art
Gallery, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1992. [ link ]
Biography
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Christgau, John. KOKOMO JOE: The Story of the First Japanese American Jockey
in the U.S.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. [ link ]
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Bahr, Diana Meyers. The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi
Embrey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. [ link ]
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Fujino, Diane C. Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama.
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. [ link ]
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Halloran, Richard. Sparky: Warrior, Peacemaker, Poet, Patriot. Honolulu:
Watermark Publishing, 2002. [ link ]
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Haslam, Gerald, with Janice E. Haslam. In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life
of S. I. Hayakawa. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2011. [ link ]
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Hirahara, Naomi. An American Son: The Story of George Aratani, Founder of
Mikasa and Kenwood. Los Angeles, CA: Japanese American National Museum,
2001. [ link ]
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Hirasaki, Manabi, with Naomi Hirahara. A Taste for Strawberries: The Independent
Journey of Nisei Farmer Manabi Hirasaki. Los Angeles: Japanese American
National Museum, 2003. [ link ]
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Ogawa, Dennis M. First Among Nisei: The Life and Writings of Masaji Marumoto.
Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, 2007. [ link ]
Studies of Individual Camps
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Bailey, Paul. City in the Sun: The Japanese Concentration Camp at Poston,
Arizona. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1971. [ link ]
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Burton, Jeffrey F., and Mary M. Farrell. World War II Japanese American
Internment Sites in Hawai'i.. Tucson, AZ: Trans-Sierran Archaeological Research;
Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i Resource Center, 2007.
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Fiset, Louis. Camp Harmony: Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puyallup
Assembly Center.Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. [ link ]
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Harvey, Robert. Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado during
World War II. Dallas: Taylor Trade, 2004. [ link ]
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Leighton, Alexander H. The Governing of Men: General Principles and
Recommendations Based on Experience at a Japanese Relocation Camp.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946. [ link ]
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Mackey, Michael R. Heart Mountain: Life in Wyoming's Concentration Camp.
Powell, Wyo.: Western History Publications, 2000. [ link ]
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Nelson, Douglas W. Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration
Camp. Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976. [ link ]
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Takei, Barbara, and Judy Tachibana. Tule Lake Revisited: A Brief History and
Guide to the Tule Lake Internment Camp Site, Second Edition. San Francisco:
Tule Lake Committee, 2012. [ link ]
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Taylor, Sandra C. Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. [ link ]
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Van Valkenburg, Carol Bulger. An Alien Place: The Fort Missoula, Montana,
Detention Camp 1941-1944. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing
Company, Inc., 1995. [ link ]
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Wegars, Priscilla. Imprisoned in Paradise: Japanese Internee Road Workers at the
World War II Kooskia Internment Camp. Moscow, ID: Asian American
Comparative Collection, 2010. [ link ]
Leaving Camp
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Austin, Allan W. From Concentration Camps to Campus: Japanese American
Students and World War II. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. [ link ]
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Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo, with Kenichiro Shimada. Japanese American Resettlement
Through the Lens: Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section,
1943–1945. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. [ link ]
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Okihiro, Gary Y. Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. [ link ]
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Thomas, Dorothy S. The Salvage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952.
[ link ]
Military Service
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Asahina, Robert. Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home
and Abroad. New York: Gotham, 2006. [ link ]
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Duus, Masayo. Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1987. [ link ]
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Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board. Japanese Eyes . . . American Heart:
Personal Reflections of Hawaii's World War II Nisei Soldiers. Honolulu: Tendai
Educational Foundation, 1998. [ link ]
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Kiyosaki, Wayne S. A Spy in Their Midst: the World War II Struggle of a JapaneseAmerican Hero: the Story of Richard Sakakida. Lanham, MD: Madison Books,
1995. [ link ]
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Masuda, Minoru. Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a
Japanese American Medic. Edited by Hana Masuda and Dianne Bridgman.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. [ link ]
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McNaughton, James C. Nisei Linguists : Japanese Americans in the Military
Intelligence Service during World War II. Washington, D.C.: Department of the
Army, 2006. [ link ]
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Moore, Brenda L. Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military
during World War II. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. [ link ]
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Odo, Franklin S. No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawaii during World
War II. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. [ link ]
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Oppenheim, Joanne. Stanley Hayami, Nisei Son. New York: Brick Tower Press,
2008. [link ]
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Shibutani, Tamotsu. The Derelicts of Company K: A Sociological Study of
Demoralization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. [ link ]
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Yost, Israel A. S. Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the World War II
Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion. Edited by Monica Elizabeth
Yost and Michael Markrich. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. [ link ]
Dissidents
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Castelnuovo, Shirley. Soldiers of Conscience: Japanese American Military
Resisters in World War II. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008. [ link ]
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Collins, Donald E. Native American Aliens: Disloyalty and the Renunciation of
Citizenship by Japanese Americans during World War II. Westport, CN:
Greenwood Press, 1985. [ link ]
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Irons, Peter. Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment
Cases. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1993. [ link]
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Lyon, Cherstin. Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship,
Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
2011. [ link ]
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Muller, Eric L. Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American
Draft Resisters in World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
[ link ]
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Nishimoto, Richard. Inside An American Concentration Camp: Japanese American
Resistance at Poston, Arizona. Ed. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Tucson: University of
Arizona Press, 1995. [ link ]
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Thomas, Dorothy S., and Richard Nishimoto. The Spoilage. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1946, 1969. [ link ]
Resettlement Era
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Brooks, Charlotte. Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing,
and the Transformation of Urban California. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2009. [ link ]
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Dempster, Brian Komei. Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American
Exile and Resettlement. Berkeley, Calif. Heydey Books, 2010. [ link ]
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Kurashige, Scott. The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in
the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2010. [ link ]
Redress
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Hatamiya, Leslie T. Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of
the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. [ link ]
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Hohri, William Minoru. Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for
Japanese-American Redress. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1988.
[ link ]
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Irons, Peter, ed. Justice Delayed: The Record of the Japanese American
Internment Cases. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. [ link ]
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Maki, Mitchell T., Harry H.L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold. Achieving the
Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress. Forewords
Robert T. Matsui and Roger Daniels. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
[ link ]
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Murray, Alice Yang. Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and
the Struggle for Redress. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. [ link ]
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Shimabukuro, Robert Sadamu. Born in Seattle: The Campaign for Japanese
American Redress. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. [ link ]
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Takezawa, Yasuko. Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American
Ethnicity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. [ link ]
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Yamamoto, Eric K., Margaret Chon, Carol L. Izumi, Jerry Kang, Frank H.
Wu. Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment.
Gaithersburg, NY: Aspen Law & Business, 2001. [ link ]
New Books (2012)
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Austin, Allan W. Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American
Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
[ link ]
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Briones, Matthew M. Jim and Jap Crow: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial
America. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012. [ link ]
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Honda, Gail, ed. Family Torn Apart: The Internment Story of the Otokichi Muin
Ozaki Family. Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i, 2012. [ link ]
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Manbo, Bill T., and Eric Muller L. Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome
Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2012. [ link ]
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Rawitsch, Mark. The House on Lemon Street: Japanese Pioneers and the
American Dream. Boulder: University Press of Chicago, 2012. [ link ]
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Robinson, Greg. After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and
Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. [ link ]
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__________. Pacific Citizens: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American
Journalism in the World War II Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
[ link ]
Printed Materials
Aleut Exclusion During World War II
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Kohlhoff, Dean. When the Wind Was a River: Aleut Evacuation in World War II.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, in association with Aleutian/Pribilof
Islands Association, 1995.
Asian Pacific American History and Issues
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Asian Women United of California. Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and
About Asian American Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
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Chan, Sucheng. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History. Boston: Twayne
Publishers, 1991.
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Friday, Christopher C. Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast
Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1994.
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Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989.
Race
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Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New
York: BasicBooks, 1992.
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Landsman, Julie. A White Teacher Talks About Race. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow
Press, 2001.
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Wu, Frank. Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. New York:
BasicBooks, 2002.